In the Kitchen

I can’t tell you how passionately I feel about families sitting down and eating together. Nothing is quite as satisfying and fulfilling as preparing a nutritious meal for your loved ones and sitting around the table together to enjoy it as a family unit.

I don’t care if it’s fruit and yogurt for breakfast or roast chicken for supper, as long as you make an effort to sit down and eat as many meals as you can together. It’s a perfect way to connect with one another, and it provides a feeling of comfort and security for your children.

True! True! Do you have a jar of America’s most popular condiment in your fridge? I know I do! No, I’m not talking ketchup (can you say high fructose corn syrup?) and I’m not talking mayonnaise. I’m talking about salsa!

According to some sales surveys, salsa is indeed America’s favorite condiment. I have a question for you, though. What’s in your salsa? Is it tomatoes and onions alone? Because, oh, salsa can be so much more!

Now, y’all know I don’t think baked goods are terribly necessary for anyone to be eating (I’ve said it before, that none of us needs another muffin!), but there are times when you do need to use flour. By now, all of us know that white flour isn’t an optimal choice for good health, but with so many options on the shelves, which one do you choose? And when?

First thing first.

Let’s talk about a flour of which all of us are familiar — wheat flour.

Over the past couple of months, I’ve warned you of arsenic in your rice, pesticides on your apples, BPA in your plastic, and human hair as a bread preservative (among other shocking topics). It’s recently been brought to my attention that some folks are starting to feel discouraged after reading my blog posts containing this information and I want to know that this has never been my intention.